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Example sentences for "mental picture"

  • Make a mental picture of De Soto's meeting with the Indian princess; of De Soto and his body-guard in Mavilla; of the burial of De Soto's body by night.

  • Can you form a mental picture of Patrick Henry as he made his great speech in St. John's Church?

  • Can you form a mental picture of their first dwellings?

  • The carpenter, above all others, must be able to carry a mental picture of his product.

  • This exercise necessitates a mental picture of the finished product.

  • You may have a mental picture of the structure in your mind, but when asked to explain it you are lost.

  • Let us therefore endeavour to form a mental picture of this aetherial wave motion with its transverse vibrations.

  • It is now for us to endeavour to form a mental picture as to how this is done.

  • If now we apply this simile to the atomic and molecular world, we shall be able to form a mental picture as to what takes place in radiation and absorption.

  • Soames, closing his eyes again, had before him a mental picture of the radiantly smiling Greek.

  • Add to this a Scotch woolen muffler, and a pair of woolen gloves, and you have a mental picture of the second traveler--a truly incongruous companion for the first.

  • In the case of the inventor, the mission seems to be sent to him as a mental picture; he suddenly sees a dim picture in his mind of something that he must make.

  • On one side was the door: that formed no part of my mental picture, because it was at my back; but in the photograph it too was indistinct, as if in the very act of being burst open.

  • Then I shut my eyes, and thought of the corresponding object in my mental Picture.

  • Both in my mental Picture, and in looking at the photograph when I saw it first, the feeling that was uppermost in my mind was not sorrow, but horror.

  • The process of transferring a mental picture to the medium may be attended with all kinds of difficulties of which we know nothing.

  • An intense effort is made to impress upon the plate, by an act of will, a mental picture or image held in the mind.

  • Formulating a mental picture of the events.

  • Is effort made to get each pupil to develop a mental picture of the scene represented by the details?

  • Formulate a mental picture of the events or scenes.

  • Now we must again form a mental picture of Neolithic Europe--after it had been for a long time in the possession of the Turanian tribes, the first band of Aryan invaders make their appearance.

  • We must try and form a mental picture of what was probably the primitive state of man; and a little judicious reasoning from known facts will do much for us in this direction.

  • From this we can at once form a mental picture of the Neolithic inhabitants of Britain.

  • We are in the position of those who, from a few broken down arches, a ruined tower and dismantled wall, would seek to form a mental picture of the stately building that once stood there.

  • If you can make a mental picture of an anecdote, you will be apt to remember it with ease.

  • At the end of each chapter, section and part, you should review that which you have read, until you are able to form a mental picture of the general ideas contained therein.

  • Most Americans have, during the day-dreams of their childhood, conjured up a mental picture of the vast interior of an ancient cathedral, and of the mysteriously impressive gloom that would some day there meet their eyes.

  • There is a mighty power in words, used in this way, providing that the user always thinks of the meaning of the words, and makes a mental picture of the quality expressed by them, instead of merely repeating them parrot fashion.

  • Try to form a mental picture of the general class of birds--how will you do it?

  • If you wish to remember the appearance of anything, look at it closely, with attention, and then turning away from it endeavor to reproduce its appearance as a mental picture in the mind.

  • By refusing to dwell upon the idea or mental picture of the exciting object, one may lessen the stimulus.

  • There are probably a good many of us whose abstract idea of ‘triangle’ is simply a mental picture of the little equilateral triangle that stands for the word in text-books of geometry.

  • I have a mental picture of a landscape, and I do not see the actual scene for some years.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mental picture" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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